Sue Arnott is going the extra mile to raise funds for her favourite charity. 26 of them to be precise because Sue, from Bentham, North Yorkshire, is taking part in the Barcelona Marathon on 13 March to raise funds for the Dr Hadwen Trust (DHT), the UK’s leading non-animal medical research charity.

Sue hopes to raise at least £1,000 as part of the DHT’s ‘Grand Challenge’, whereby the charity hopes to raise £180,000 to fund a brain tumour research project.

Said Sue: “This means a lot to me for two reasons. The first is that a few years ago I lost a good friend, June, who died from a brain tumour after a long struggle with the disease.”

“The second is that the Dr Hadwen Trust has been the driving force in funding advanced scientific research methods where experimentation using animals has been replaced with more human-relevant ones.”

Sue is a member of Bentham Beagles Running Club and she will be joined in her marathon effort by fellow club members Linda Morris, Zoe MacDonald, Diane Armstrong, Kate Morris and Jill Noble.

Said Danielle Goodwin, Fundraising Development Officer at the Dr Hadwen Trust: “Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer, yet just 1% of the national spend on cancer research is allocated to brain tumour research. We think that this is unacceptable.”

“Thanks to Sue and to others undertaking the Grand Challenge we hope to raise enough money to fund a major research project into this devastating disease. We wish her and her Bentham Beagles all the very best for their marathon effort.”

To sponsor Sue please visit: https://www.justgiving.com/Susie-Arnott/ For more information about the Dr Hadwen Trust and the Grand Challenge please visit: http://www.drhadwentrust.org/grandchallenge/grand-challenge

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NOTES TO EDITORS

1. The Dr Hadwen Trust (DHT) is the UK’s leading non-animal medical research charity. Since 1971 the DHT has awarded grants to over 180 non-animal medical research projects including: cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, heart and liver disease and diabetes.
2. Over the last five years alone the DHT has committed to over £3.5 million worth of animal replacement research projects across the UK at student, PhD and post-doctoral level.
3. The Dr Hadwen Trust continues to be the UK’s leading charity provider of grants solely dedicated to animal replacement medical research.
4. For more information please contact: Dr Kay Miller at [email protected] or 01462 436819
5. For more information about the Bentham Beagles please visit: http://www.benthambeagles.co.uk/